Sustainability (Minor)

Required Courses

Complete the following two courses. The Environmental Forum is a required two-credit course (taken twice) focusing on topics related to sustainability and the environment, encouraging an active dialog between students and invited expert speakers, and providing an integrative thread to the minor. In addition, this course has a service-learning component that connects sustainability to the community.

Note: BIOL 105 (Climate Justice in Environmental Education), and BIOL106 (Practical Applications in Environmental Education) can be used in place of one the Environmental Forum courses.

Electives for the Minor in Sustainability

Complete four (4) elective courses.  The selection of elective courses within the Sustainability minor should be undertaken in consultation with the student’s major advisor or another faculty member with an interest in issues of sustainability. Students must take 4 courses that form a cohesive and thematic thread, selecting from at least two of the following categories:

  • Scientific Issues
  • Economic and Political Issues
  • Social Issues

Scientific Issues

BIOL 104Introduction to Environmental Science

4

BIOL 245Principles of Ecology

4

Economic and Political Issues

ECON 145Economics of Sustainability and Resource Use

4

ECON 247Environmental Economics

4

POLS 217American Public Policy

4

 

Social Issues

BUS 137Entrepreneurial Mindset

4

BUS 224Social Action Leaders

4

BUS 229Corporate Social Responsibility: Managing People, Planet, & Profit

4

SOCI 245/PH 245Global Health

4

SOCI 249Inequalities

4

LTWR 201-05Environmentalist Writing